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...granting of patents on selectively bred plants or genetically-engineered microorganisms has been accepted for years. But the issue of the first patent for a "transgenic nonhuman mammal" should have been the focal point for an ethical debate on man's right to manipulate the course of nature to fit its needs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Allow Public Debate | 4/26/1988 | See Source »

...fighter pilot, call him the President's right hand man--but to millions of Americans, George Herbert Walker Bush is still a wimp. The wimpfactor wasn't invented by the Democrats or by caustic cartoonists. As early as 1980, Manchester Union Leader Publisher William Loeb insisted that the Yale-bred Bush is "an incompetent wimp...

Author: By Frank E. Lockwood, | Title: Deep Doo Doo for Bush | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...view Hollywood as an artistic Alcatraz where slaves to convention are blinkered from the ferment of the outside world. In the '60s, as a prodigy auteur with the smartest, most restless camera style in the business, Bertolucci was a charter member of the first generation of directors who were bred to break the rules of narrative film. Before the Revolution (1964) and The Conformist (1970) swooned with infatuation for radical politics and complex storytelling. With Last Tango in Paris (1972), Bertolucci looked to have conquered Hollywood on his own terms. Its desperate, soft-core sex and the voluptuous rankness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Love And Respect, Hollywood-Style | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...larger sense, the post-Super Tuesday race for the nomination reflects the national state of mind in the twilight of the Reagan years. Despite some of his recent blunders, the President is still regarded with a powerful affection that has bred a certain reluctance to say goodbye to a gauzy era of good feeling. Bush benefits from this kind of contemporary nostalgia. His dogged loyalty to the President enables him to inherit some of Reagan's popularity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dwarfs No More | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...carry a label stating that the fur comes from "animals commonly caught in leg-hold traps." The British Fur Trade Association said it was not overly worried, since the law applies only to skins of wild animals and some 85% of all skins sold in Britain are farm- bred. But the B.F.T.A. complained that the move could hamper its research "into humane trapping methods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Furry Furor | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

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